Law Enforcement – American Conservative Movement https://americanconservativemovement.com American exceptionalism isn't dead. It just needs to be embraced. Fri, 13 Sep 2024 09:49:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://americanconservativemovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-America-First-Favicon-32x32.png Law Enforcement – American Conservative Movement https://americanconservativemovement.com 32 32 135597105 Tennessee Bureau of Investigations Raids Home of Millersville Police Chief After He Went Public About Massive Global Crime Syndicate https://americanconservativemovement.com/tennessee-bureau-of-investigations-raids-home-of-millersville-police-chief-after-he-went-public-about-massive-global-crime-syndicate/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/tennessee-bureau-of-investigations-raids-home-of-millersville-police-chief-after-he-went-public-about-massive-global-crime-syndicate/#respond Fri, 13 Sep 2024 09:49:17 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/tennessee-bureau-of-investigations-raids-home-of-millersville-police-chief-after-he-went-public-about-massive-global-crime-syndicate/ (Natural News)—The assistant police chief of a Nashville suburb has taken to social media to warn about some serious corruption at the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), Tennessee’s version of the FBI.

Millersville Assistant Police Chief Shawn Taylor says his department and his home were raided by the TBI after the Millersville Police Department uncovered crimes involving high-profile individuals tied to mortgage fraud, narcotics trafficking, election fraud and human trafficking.

The corruption, Taylor says, extends far beyond Millersville, Nashville and even the state of Tennessee. And yet whoever is running the TBI is using the state agency to commit lawfare against local law enforcement for simply doing their jobs.

Taylor says the crime ring involves members of the U.S. Congress, state attorneys general, other law enforcement agencies and even BRICS nations, particularly communist China.

According to Taylor, a foreign adversary has captured the government and the only way to destroy it is for Americans to set aside their differences and work together – watch the video below:

(Related: Should there be another “pandemic,” law enforcement will be called upon to help the globalists force everyone to get “vaccinated.”)

Foreign enemies shifting political outcomes, weakening U.S. sovereignty

During the TBI raid on Taylor’s home, agents seized files and other evidence used in criminal investigations.

“They took all of our files so that we are unable to complete these cases,” he said.

Concerning the BRICS nations, Taylor says they are involved in fraudulent mortgages in several U.S. states. The purpose of this fraud is to shift political outcomes and ultimately weaken U.S. sovereignty.

“This is a multifaceted attack from a foreign adversary who is paying off our local municipal, county, state and federal politicians to keep this from coming to light,” Taylor explained.

“We are moving forward with this case in other states and other arenas even though they have taken our files and our information.”

The claims Taylor makes in the above video appear to concern a much larger globalist agenda at work across America. It is a plague that infests everything from your local police department right on up to the White House.

During their raid on Taylor’s home, TBI agents reportedly “urinated” in his bathtub. This, he says, shows that the government hates Americans and wants them to know it.

“To me, that was the government saying, ‘piss on you, America,’ and that’s not okay,” Taylor says. “It’s time to stand up, unify, come together peacefully, and demand accountability.”

Alex Jones backed Taylor’s claims by stating that the Department of Justice (DOJ) under Joe Biden has made sure that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), BlackRock and other elements of the globalist crime syndicate are able to continue making inroads towards America’s ultimate destruction.

“From my deep research, what this Tennessee sheriff [sic] is saying is dead on,” Jones commented.

Taylor, meanwhile, wants Americans to drop their political and religious affiliations and merge together as one to fight the globalists whom he says are trying to dismantle the country. Peaceful but firm resistance is what he says will hold the right people accountable for their actions and get the job done.

If you are interested in reading the full story of what the TBI did to Taylor’s home and to the Millersville Police Department, check out local news stories. More related news coverage can be found at Corruption.news.

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Kamala Harris’ Dangerous Stance on School Safety Exposed https://americanconservativemovement.com/kamala-harris-dangerous-stance-on-school-safety-exposed/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/kamala-harris-dangerous-stance-on-school-safety-exposed/#respond Thu, 29 Aug 2024 22:04:09 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/kamala-harris-dangerous-stance-on-school-safety-exposed/ In a shocking revelation, Vice President Kamala Harris has been exposed for advocating policies that could endanger our children. Comments from 2019 have resurfaced, showing Harris supporting the removal of police officers from schools, a move that could leave students vulnerable to the very threats that have already claimed too many young lives.

JT Lewis, whose brother Jesse was tragically killed in the Sandy Hook shooting, expressed his outrage on X, stating, “My brother was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting because of liberal policies like the one Kamala is pushing here… I wish there had been a police officer there to protect him. Students need more protection, not less!”

The comments in question were made by Harris during her 2020 presidential campaign at Benedict College in South Carolina. She spoke of “demilitarizing” schools, a euphemism for stripping away the very security measures that could prevent another tragedy. Harris’s focus was on what she perceives as “inequities” in school discipline, particularly affecting Black and Brown boys, rather than on the safety of all students.

Her stance was not just about removing police but also about reducing juvenile incarceration, arguing for less incarceration and an end to solitary confinement for juveniles. While these might sound compassionate, they ignore the reality that without proper security and consequences for actions, school environments can become chaotic and dangerous.

Fox News Digital attempted to get clarification from Harris’s campaign on whether she still supports these policies, but received no response. This silence is deafening, especially when parents like Ryan Petty and Andrew Pollack, who lost their daughters in the Parkland shooting, have publicly condemned her views.

Petty tweeted, “Wreckless. Radical. Kamala wants to make schools less safe. Your kids aren’t safe with Kamala Harris in office,” while Pollack added, “This is sickening. My daughter was killed because Parkland didn’t have enough security. We need more school resource officers — not fewer!”

The timing of Harris’s comments was particularly irresponsible, coming just before the 2020 riots following George Floyd’s death, which saw calls to “defund the police.” This movement led to many school districts across the country cutting ties with law enforcement, only to see a rise in school violence, forcing many to reverse these decisions.

Education Week reported in 2022 that at least 50 school districts had either removed officers or slashed their budgets, only to regret it as school violence spiked. This backtracking on security measures underscores the folly of Harris’s original stance.

Now, as Harris steps into the presidential race following Biden’s withdrawal, her past comments on school safety come under renewed scrutiny. They reveal a pattern of prioritizing ideological purity over the practical safety needs of American students. This is not just a policy misstep; it’s a failure of leadership that could have dire consequences for our nation’s youth.

It’s clear that if we want our schools to be safe havens for learning, not battlegrounds for political ideologies, we must reject the dangerous policies Harris once championed. Our children deserve better than to be pawns in a political game where their safety is the stake.

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Local Police Officer Confronted Attempted-Assassin Thomas Crooks on Roof Seconds Before Attack https://americanconservativemovement.com/local-police-officer-confronted-attempted-assassin-thomas-crooks-on-roof-seconds-before-attack/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/local-police-officer-confronted-attempted-assassin-thomas-crooks-on-roof-seconds-before-attack/#respond Sun, 14 Jul 2024 21:08:16 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=209749 A bombshell report is coming from multiple anonymous law enforcement sources claiming a local police officer climbed on the roof and confronted Thomas Crooks just moments before he shot multiple people, including President Donald J. Trump.

As News Nation reported, Crooks pointed his firearm at the police officer to force him to retreat.

According to NY Post:

After rallygoers spotted Crooks on the roof of a manufacturing plant just 130 yards from the stage where Trump was speaking just after 6 p.m. Tuesday, police were notified and one officer climbed a ladder to investigate, law enforcement officials said on the condition of anonymity.

There the officer encountered Crooks, who pointed his AR-style rifle at them.

The officer then backed down the ladder, and Crooks immediately took aim and loosed eight shots at the former president – grazing him in the ear, killing one bystander in the rally crowd, and gravely wounding two others.

If the report is true, it could explain why the Secret Service snipers held their fire until after Crooks took his shots.

This is a developing story and will be updated when more information is available.

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Gang Members Outnumber Police 22 to 1 in the City of Chicago, and the Ratio Just Keeps Getting Worse https://americanconservativemovement.com/gang-members-outnumber-police-22-to-1-in-the-city-of-chicago-and-the-ratio-just-keeps-getting-worse/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/gang-members-outnumber-police-22-to-1-in-the-city-of-chicago-and-the-ratio-just-keeps-getting-worse/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2024 11:15:42 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=201658 (End of the American Dream)—The city of Chicago has become a time bomb, and it is a prime example of a very disturbing trend that is happening all over America.  Criminal gangs are thriving in most of our major urban areas, and Joe Biden’s open border policies are greatly fueling their growth.  With each passing day, more deeply impoverished young migrants pour into our cities, and many of them are quickly recruited by gangs.  It would be difficult for me to overstate the seriousness of this crisis, but it is largely being ignored by the mainstream media.

A number of years ago I wrote about the gang problem in Chicago, and at that time gang members outnumbered police by 10 to 1.

Unfortunately, things have gotten so much worse since then.

Today, the CPD has identified more than 280,000 gang members in the city of Chicago…

The Chicago Police Department maintains two massive gang databases, collectively labeling more than 280,000 people as “gang members.” 95% of those people listed are people of color, most being young men in their late teens and 20s, but also thousands being Black and Latinx youth and elders.

That is the size of a small army!

And it is important to note that these are just the individuals that the CPD has been able to identify and put into their databases.

There are undoubtedly more that they don’t know about or have not been able to identify.

Meanwhile, the size of the CPD has been hovering just above 12,000

However, the size of the Chicago Police Department was essentially unchanged on Johnson’s 100th day in office as compared with his first day in office. CPD had 12,360 employees on Johnson’s first full day in office and 12,363 employees on Monday, according to a city database. The number of sworn officers has also remained steady, with 11,720 officers on duty as of May 1, and 11,722 on the force as of Aug. 1, according to a database maintained by the Chicago Police Department.

Once I had the numbers, I did the math, and I discovered that gang members now outnumber police in the city of Chicago by a ratio of 22 to 1.

So it should come as no surprise that major crime in the Windy City was way up in 2023

Overall major crime was up in 2023 by 16%, with robberies up 23%. There is likely significant underreporting of crimes given police shortages. Over half of “high priority” 911 calls did not have an officer available to respond when the call came in. This is a huge increase compared to 2019, when 19% of all calls didn’t have an officer available.

Memphis is another city that has an absolutely massive gang problem.

It is being reported that the mayor recently met with gang leaders and “asked them to agree to a seven-day ceasefire”

The mayor of Memphis, Tennessee, met with local gang leaders and asked them to agree to a seven-day ceasefire, as crime has seemingly spiraled out of control in the city.

The mayor said that he had talks, not “negotiations,” with Memphis gang leaders, with community representatives adding that the number of gangs in the city has also become a problem in itself.

A seven day ceasefire?

That sounds like something that would happen in the Middle East.

But of course the truth is that Memphis really has become a war zone.

If you can believe it, over 3,500 property crimes were reported in Memphis during the month of January alone

The gang members told the mayor a recent “epidemic of car break-ins” was simply due to their younger gang members being bored and having nothing to do.

Including the break-ins, more than 3,500 property crimes were reported in January 2024 alone, according to police statistics.

Yesterday, I wrote an article about how wonderful the state of Tennessee is, but I also warned my readers to avoid the Memphis area entirely.

It really is that bad.

The Atlanta metropolitan area is also caught in a downward spiral.  Crime is completely out of control, and over the weekend a massive riot that involved hundreds of young people made headlines all over the nation

One person was shot when suspects opened fire on police during a riot involving hundreds of ‘youths’ at a Six Flags amusement park in Georgia over the weekend, according to reports.

The shocking string of events unfolded on Saturday evening in Austell, a city in the Atlanta metro region.

Thousands of people turned out for opening day at Six Flags Over Georgia before the event devolved into extreme mob violence.

Hundreds of mostly-younger guests began fighting and sowing chaos throughout the park, forcing evacuations as security lost control of the crowd.

We wanted to push every shred of traditional morality out of our schools.

So the truth is that we have brought this on ourselves.

Our young people didn’t have to turn out this way.  If we had raised them differently we would have gotten different results.

Right now, the state of California is experiencing an absolutely relentless crime wave, and authorities are telling us that approximately 300,000 gang members currently reside there…

The California Department of Justice estimates that there could be as many as 300,000 gang members in this state.

California has had a problem with crime for decades, but never anything like this.

According to one recent survey, a whopping 86 percent of business owners in the state believe “that crime has increased in their area”

More than 86% of business owners in California say that crime has increased in their area, while 67% from the same survey claimed to be considering moving their headquarters out of the Golden State, according to the latest numbers from RedBalloon and PublicSq.’s Freedom Economy Index.

At this point, I don’t know why anyone would still want to live there.

Two California business owners that were interviewed by Fox News explained why they are thinking of leaving

“The building where I have my office has just installed floodlights throughout the parking lot, installed new doors and upgraded the security system to improve safety,” Carvalho detailed. “Throughout the neighborhood, there are signs reminding people not to leave valuables in their cars.”

“It used to be this very nice town, now it is just horrible,” Falwell said. “We have been in our home for 17 years, we have had mail theft. The crime has impacted my desire to even leave my house or business.”

When crime is so bad that you don’t even want to leave your own home, it is definitely time to look for greener pastures.

Of course the truth is that crime is getting worse virtually everywhere, and the open border policies of the Biden administration are certainly not helping matters.

This week, we learned that the Biden administration has actually been flying hundreds of thousands of “asylum seekers” directly into the United States…

A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has revealed that the Biden administration has flown at least 320,000 migrants into the United States in an effort to reduce the number of crossings at the southern border, according to Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies.

“The program at the center of the FOIA litigation is perhaps the most enigmatic and least-known of the Biden administration’s uses of the CBP One cellphone scheduling app, even though it is responsible for almost invisibly importing by air 320,000 aliens with no legal right to enter the United States since it got underway in late 2022,” wrote Bensman.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had initially refused to disclose information about the flights, which use a cell phone app, CBP One, to arrange.

“Under these legally dubious parole programs, aliens who cannot legally enter the country use the CBP One app to apply for travel authorization and temporary humanitarian release from those airports. The parole program allows for two-year periods of legal status during which adults are eligible for work authorization,” Bensman continues.

Overall, it is being estimated that there will be over 8 million “asylum seekers” living in the U.S. “by the end of September”

More than 8 million asylum seekers and other migrants will be living inside the U.S in legal limbo by the end of September — a roughly 167% increase in five years, according to internal government projections obtained by Axios.

We are witnessing a spike in migration that is unlike anything we have ever seen before.

And this is one of the primary reasons why gangs are experiencing such explosive growth.

The stage is being set for societal chaos on an epic scale.

Unfortunately, there is no turning back now.  Our leaders have been making disastrous decisions for a long time, and those disastrous decisions are going to have extremely bitter consequences.

Michael’s new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can check out his new Substack newsletter right here.

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Actual Domestic Terrorism: Radical Left-Wing Cult Plots in a Private Online Chatroom to Murder Cops https://americanconservativemovement.com/actual-domestic-terrorism-radical-left-wing-cult-plots-in-a-private-online-chatroom-to-murder-cops/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/actual-domestic-terrorism-radical-left-wing-cult-plots-in-a-private-online-chatroom-to-murder-cops/#respond Sat, 15 Jul 2023 19:38:06 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=194820 The William McKinley Institute recently published, through an anonymous source, the Discord server and organizational documents of the anti-white extremist group Organize Against Transphobia (OAT). A private chatroom of the said radical leftist activist group has been exposed where members were found plotting the murder of cops.

One of the militant transgender terrorists is Timothy Johnson also known as “Caboose” Johnson, who describes himself as an Irish-American and “reconnecting” Cherokee on Twitter. According to Justice Report, Caboose is somewhat of a minor e-celebrity in the communist TikTok community. He is also an ANTIFA activist who has infiltrated the anti-government “Boogaloo Boys” group which started as libertarian but drifted leftward due to their lack of vigilance. He also served in the United States Armed Forces as an “Infantry Soldier” for the Army National Guard, as per his LinkedIn.

Reports reveal that Caboose regularly puts on fatigues and engages in live-action role-playing (LARP) as a military enforcer during ANTIFA rallies. (Related: Antifa attack on police training site outside Atlanta deemed ‘domestic terrorism’ as dozens are arrested.)

“I provide transportation solutions with years of trucking, dispatching, insurance, and supply chain experience at my disposal. My military experience shows I can operate well under pressure and adapt to challenges in a creative way,” he wrote regarding his activity at a protest in Louisville for Breonna Taylor, a drug-dealing, gun-slinging thug who was killed during a police encounter.

Johnson expressed his desire to kill cops and praised the actions of renegade Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) cop Christopher Dorner, who went on a murder rampage on some of his former colleagues before committing suicide back in 2013. However, he still critiqued Dorner’s personal ideology and motivations as “cringe.”

In the private chatroom conversations, he posted hundreds of times since the OAT Discord was first created, repeatedly expressing his desire for extreme violence. On April 19, he made the sadistic comment in a fit of rage after a conservative University of South Carolina student defied his anti-social politics at an “Uncensored America” speaking event. The post came immediately after OAT’s supposedly peaceful counter-protest escalated into violence. “I wanna bash his face in and piss into the back of his skull. That’s all I could think about last night,” he said.

Not only does he regularly post about rage and violence, but he also is a major advocate of grooming children with pro-transgender sexual propaganda as well as leftist-anarchist materials to make them hate America and white people as well as bask in the revolutionary Marxism ideology. He even has a video reading a subversive propaganda book aimed at children.

Meanwhile, another individual exposed in these leaks is Matt Cox, who is a “proud father of a nonbinary child” and professes to be the “official dad of OAT.” Cox offers his expertise as a mixed martial artist to the group and has regularly trained OAT members in what he calls “mutual aid martial arts” (MAMA) regimens. Also, according to the leaked convos, he attended firearm combat exercises hosted by local members of the infamous John Brown Gun Club (JBGC) and the local Socialist Rifle Association (SRA).

In a January 31 discussion, which took place after one of the group’s first firearm combat drills, Cox debated with another user, who didn’t want to mention JBGC due to a rightful fear of public backlash. The discussion, where Cox questioned the hesitancy, revealed that the only vetting done prior to entry to one of OAT’s SRA-hosted rifle training exercises is a round of what they called “vibe checking.”

The unearthed Discord chats also suggested latent aggression simmering within Cox and numerous times it appears as if he’s champing at the bit to fight “fascists” in the streets. “I didn’t think I could get more angry at this situation,” he said in a January 24 post. When another member of OAT replied, “They are really f*cking around today,” he replied, “Time for them to find out.”

He also pledged that he would “bleed” with them “till the war is won,” referring to his devotion to fighting “transphobia.”

Additionally, Cox seemed to present himself as arrogant and invincible in his posts. However, this is not because of his own abilities. “My wife’s a lawyer in the biggest progressive firm in [South Carolina], f*ckin come at me ghouls,” he boasted, referring to his wife Sarah JM Cox of Burnette Shutt & McDaniel.

During his free time, this late 40s man admitted he’d troll mainstream conservatives with immature comments during YouTube live streams. In his post on January 6, he shared a screen capture of his comment during a live episode of Corey Allen’s “The Overton Report,” a conservative program critical of homosexual perversion in South Carolina.

“The comment, made with his personal YouTube account ‘@phagtacular,’ is crude and full of cheap profanities but appears to stem from a previous incident in which Cox allegedly harassed Allen in real life, adding further evidence of Cox’s willingness to abide by OAT’s point of unity #2, “a diversity of tactics.'”

He was proud of himself that the host did not know it was him, but a little scared that he vowed to be more careful next time.

Visit LeftCult.com to read more on how the Left can go radical to push their ideologies.

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You Can’t Depend on the State to Maintain Public Order https://americanconservativemovement.com/you-cant-depend-on-the-state-to-maintain-public-order/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/you-cant-depend-on-the-state-to-maintain-public-order/#respond Mon, 12 Jun 2023 10:08:53 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=193524 Although commonly used, Max Weber’s definition of the state—an entity that has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force within a given geographical area—can mislead people into thinking that the state is the only or even the primary reason for security and order. This is illustrated in the trends in the nonstate provision of security, as revealed by my Google alert for the phrase “private police.” Lately, incidents of car and bike theft have led individuals to either organize themselves to prevent and respond to it or hire private security to do so.

One example is a gas station in Philadelphia (a city that has frequently been in the news lately due to growing crime problems, having set a new personal record for annual murders) that has hired security armed with rifles to protect patrons, mainly from car jackings, since motorists are especially vulnerable to attack while pumping gas.

One thing I found notable from a Fox News interview of the head of security Chief Andre Boyer (other than the fact that journalists at a “conservative” outlet are just as clueless as other journalists about what an AR15 is) is his response to a question about whether he and his agents will intervene when witnessing a crime in progress. Chief Boyer responds, “We have to. We have a contract to protect our clients and our clients’ assets.”

As I have noted previously, the fact that voluntarily hired security has a contractual obligation to provide services to the people who pay them is in stark contrast to government police. On multiple occasions, the US Supreme Court has opined that US citizens have no constitutional right to police protection and officers cannot be held legally liable for failing to protect them. You must pay them under penalty of law, but they are not required to provide anything in return.

Also noteworthy is a comment the interviewer makes that “the number one job of the government, whatever level, whether federal, state, local, is to keep their citizens safe. So, if you’re hiring an outside agency that’s a clear indicator that government is failing its people.” Regarding the first part of that statement, Judge Andrew Napolitano would strongly disagree: it is not the job of the government (if it is to have any job at all) to keep you safe but rather to keep you free.

Regarding the second part of that statement, the interviewer gives far too much credit to the government. To say categorically that any hiring of private security means the state is failing to do its job assumes godlike powers on the part of the state. As mentioned above, it is wrong to assume that the state’s threat of capturing and punishing lawbreakers is primarily responsible for the peace and orderliness we enjoy under normal circumstances. Perhaps since there are an estimated three to four people employed in private security for every government police officer, the Fox News interviewer would consider this proof that the government cannot do its number one job and is unfit to exist.

Car theft is not only a major issue in Philly but in Portland, Oregon, as well. Both cities are experiencing historic highs in crime. In response to the explosion of car theft in Portland, a Facebook group named “PDX Stolen Cars” was formed to crowdsource locating stolen vehicles. According to the founder of the Facebook group, Titan Crawford, “I had found a stolen car in my neighborhood. I knew it was stolen. I contacted the police and they said there’s not a whole lot we can do right now. So I was like, ‘Well see if I can do something.’”

Mr. Crawford has been disillusioned of the idea that the government is the ultimate protector of property rights: “It would be cool if the city could do this and I didn’t have to.” I imagine many people thought the same thing about government schools. Fortunately, an increasing number of parents are able to get some of their tax money back to send kids to a school of their choice. Instead of being taxed to pay for police services they don’t receive, perhaps some residents of Portland would be interested in “police choice.”

Burlington, Vermont, is having a similar experience with bike thefts, along with the Facebook groups created to deal with it because the government police are too busy. They are too busy to deal not only with bike thefts but property destruction, retail larceny, assaults by homeless people in parks, and open-air drug markets (financed by stolen bikes). And, as elsewhere, residents have found that they are on their own in dealing with these things.

One might point out that another common theme among these cities is the fact that their politicians all committed to “defunding the police” to some degree. This movement, while short-lived and ultimately overstated in how much budgets were cut, was successful in reducing police staffing and recruitment. Does the corresponding rise in crime and disorder indicate, then, that government police are crucial in maintaining order?

No. Rather, the lesson one should take from the “defund the police” experience (to the extent that one believes that it was a misguided, if not horrible, idea) is that it is an outcome that is only possible when policing is under political control. It was not a case of individuals deciding to abstain from buying when they no longer wanted a particular service.

The taxpayer-funded monopoly on policing became even less effective without leaving any more money in taxpayers’ pockets. Drawing another parallel with government schools, which closed without returning the taxpayers’ money, several cities cut police funding and staffing while keeping the money that taxpayers ostensibly paid for that purpose. It truly is only the government that can take your money, barely provide a service they’ve monopolized, and then insist on how necessary they are for the provision of that service.

Now, especially with the rise of the Soros-funded district attorneys, Americans are realizing that they are responsible for their own safety and security. This function, like the education of their children, cannot be outsourced to the government. The silver lining is that, as people build parallel institutions, the less dependent upon government they become and the more obvious the overstatement of the state’s necessity for order becomes. This is a necessary step for getting us on the road to rediscovery of an ethos of liberty and self-reliance.

About the Author

Tate Fegley is Chair of Business and Economics at Montreat College and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute.

Article cross-posted from Mises.

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Radical San Francisco District Supervisor Who Pushed #DefundThePolice Is Now Begging for More Police https://americanconservativemovement.com/radical-san-francisco-district-supervisor-who-pushed-defundthepolice-is-now-begging-for-more-police/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/radical-san-francisco-district-supervisor-who-pushed-defundthepolice-is-now-begging-for-more-police/#respond Mon, 20 Mar 2023 08:26:59 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=191118 “Be careful what you wish for.”

Radical Democrat Hillary Ronen strongly supported defunding police in 2020, as did pretty much every Democrat politician in the nation. It was the easiest way to stay hip, cool, and woke back then. Now that those who got their way are seeing first-hand what defunding police actually does to their districts, they’re changing tunes.

I discussed Ronen’s hypocrisy on the latest episode of The JD Rucker Show.

According to Fox News:

Hillary Ronen, a Democrat, represents District 9 on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. During a Budget and Appropriations Committee meeting on Wednesday, she made an impassioned plea to add more officers to the Mission District, which she represents.

Ronen was attacking San Francisco’s police chief for spending a large amount of overtime on an anti-retail theft program instead of prioritizing police presence in her district.

“I’ve been begging this department to give the Mission what it deserves in terms of police presence all year long,” Ronen said. “And I have been told time and time and time and time again there are no officers that we can send to Mission.”

“It hurts. And I feel betrayed by the department. I feel betrayed by the mayor. I feel betrayed by the priorities of the city,” the Democratic politician added.

The speech contradicts her stance on policing in 2020. After the George Floyd protests, Ronen tweeted that she believed “strongly” that San Francisco’s police force needed to be reduced.

Here’s what she said less than three years ago

I want to make it clear that I believe strongly in defunding the police and reducing the number of officers on our force. For decades we’ve had an imbalance in our city’s budget, with hundreds of millions of dollars going to SFPD to have them do work they are not qualified to do.

After fighting to create Mental Health SF which redirects funds to mental health care crisis teams instead of police, I believe without a shadow of a doubt that SFPD is not where we should be putting our money. But we have a big fight on our hands to make these cuts happen.

The Mayor has submitted her proposed budget to the Board already, and unfortunately, this level of cuts has not been included. In my role on the Budget & Appropriations Committee, I want you to know I will be fighting for three things.

1. Significant cuts to SFPD’s budget that will meaningfully start off a multi-year process to defund and reimagine policing in San Francisco. 2. A reduction in the number of officers and command staff.

3. Fully funding the departments that are actually doing the work of keeping our streets safe, iIncluding full funding for street crisis response through Mental Health SF.

But I can’t do this alone. I only have one vote. If you agree with me that we need to defund the police and instead fund services, I need your support now. I’m asking everyone to join me to get these cuts passed in the Budget Committee.

There is a hearing on the SFPD budget on August 20, and the Budget Committee will vote on August 26. We need three votes at this Committee and 6 votes at the full Board to implement these cuts.

If I’ve learned anything from my years in City Hall, it is that our best wins come through collaboration. We need unprecedented unity between those who wish to defund the police if we are to get passed this finish line together.

Some may want to feel badly for her now that her district is being overridden by crime, but that was what she wanted. Others may want to feel badly for the people in her district, but most of them voted for her.

Wokesters are learning the hard way, I suppose.

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Leave Austin Now: Massive Wave of Police Retirements Coming as Repercussions from Defunding Hit Home https://americanconservativemovement.com/leave-austin-now-massive-wave-of-police-retirements-coming-as-repercussions-from-defunding-hit-home/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/leave-austin-now-massive-wave-of-police-retirements-coming-as-repercussions-from-defunding-hit-home/#respond Sat, 25 Feb 2023 20:56:37 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=190791 Texas is generally considered a red (though leaning more and more purple) state. Republicans have been able to keep control outside of the metro areas and even in most of the metros the gab between blue and red is smaller than most other big cities.

The exception has been Austin which models itself more after San Francisco and Los Angeles than Dallas or Houston. The city was among those leading the charge during 2020’s big #DefundPolice movement and the results have been bad. They’re about to get worse. According to Fox News:

Austin police officers past and present are warning Fox News Digital that the Texas capital’s police force critically depleted as a result of defunding in 2020 is on the verge of losing another wave of officers in response to a breakdown between the city and the police on a new contract.

An Austin Police Department source told Fox News Digital this week that 40 officers have filed their retirement papers following a 9-2 city council vote a few weeks ago to scrap a four-year contract that the city had previously agreed to in principle and instead pursue a 1-year contract that the police union’s board has rejected.

That move is believed by many to be due to intense pressure from anti-police activists in the city who look to hold off a long term deal until after voters decide on competing ballot initiatives dealing with “police oversight” that go before voters in May.

“It’s my opinion that the radicals and activists in the city have such a grip on our elected officials that at some point in time over the last year or so their plans changed,” the source, who is an Austin Police Department officer, said.  “They said O.K. now we’re going to get signatures for this ballot initiative in May and switch gears and put pressure on city leadership to move away from a four-year deal to a one-year deal because the four-year is detrimental to what we are trying to accomplish.”

When police move out, criminals tend to move in. The future for residents of the City of Austin looks very bleak. Moving out now before property values plummet over rampant crime may be pro tip.

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Trevor Loudon’s Proposal to Eliminate Foreign Infiltration Is So Radical, It Might Just Work https://americanconservativemovement.com/trevor-loudons-proposal-to-eliminate-foreign-infiltration-is-so-radical-it-might-just-work/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/trevor-loudons-proposal-to-eliminate-foreign-infiltration-is-so-radical-it-might-just-work/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2022 09:57:59 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=184242 Trevor Loudon has been fighting the good fight against foreign infiltration in the United States for decades. The New Zealand native has made the United States his home and he refuses to allow foreign powers to continue to have so much influence here. From exposing radical Islam to Neo-Marxists to the globalist elite cabal, Loudon has built a career around informing politicians and average Americans about the dangers we face.

I had the pleasure of interviewing him for the first time yesterday. It was enthralling as he began by detailing what’s in his newest books. He revealed some of the Senators who are compromised by the Chinese Communist Party and also happen to be on the ballots next Tuesday.

Here’s the clip from the latest episode of The JD Rucker Show:

Here’s a transcript of Loudon’s proposal followed by the entire episode:

This is what the next conservative president has to do. First of all, you set up a new intelligence agency focused solely on foreign infiltration. You staff it with people who left the service — maybe the CIA, the FBI — at the beginning of the Obama administration or earlier, so they’re not tainted.

Then you bring in a whole bunch of new guys, vetted from special forces, from the technical institutions. This agency is like an untouchables unit. It’s only about foreign agents. And then you declare a three month amnesty for every foreign agent in the country. The president declares an amnesty.

You’ve got three months to leave the country or to come forward to the new agency and spill your guts. Tell us everything you know. If you spill your guts, you’ll get to escape prosecution. You’ll have to testify in court against the… you’ll have to rat out your colleagues in court, but you won’t be prosecuted. That would throw every foreign network in the country into total confusion.

You’d see a whole bunch of Senators leave the Senate for ‘family reasons.’ You’d see a whole bunch of Big Tech guys stand down, a whole bunch of Wall Street guys stand down. Thousands of… hundreds of thousands of Chinese would leave the country. Russian mob would sell their mansions in Miami and go back to Moscow.

You’d see Hezbollah guys taken off because all these networks would be in confusion. None of them could trust what was going on. You might have some Iranian spy dealing with a corrupt, corrupt defense contractor. But he wouldn’t know if the corrupt defense contractor was wearing a wire, had taken a deal and he’s thinking, ‘If I get caught, I’m going to Leavenworth with for 30 years.

Because at the end of three months, if you don’t come forward, you get 30 years in jail. See a lot of these traitors, these Senators, they get slowly corrupted. They might be compromised on… sexually compromised on a trip overseas. Their family might be threatened. They might be offered a business deal that they don’t understand the implications of. A lot of these traitors want out.

Amnesty is the road out. As long as you rat out everybody you were working with. You would, you would completely transform the country in a matter of a few weeks without firing a single shot. America would be a different place and millions of Americans would understand how deeply penetrated we were by the Iranians, by the Chinese, by the Russians, by the Cubans, by the Turks, by the Saudis, et cetera.

Heavy penalties if you don’t come forward, amnesty if you do. Leave the country, take amnesty, or go to jail for 30 years, that’s your choices. That would transform America.

Some will see this as a brilliant proposal because it would almost certainly work. Others might be concerned about the costs to our freedoms since federal law enforcement does not have a good track-record in recent years. Loudon’s proposal attempts to address this lack of faith in current agencies by only recruiting those who have not been compromised. That may be easier said than done, especially considering the size this agency would need to be in order to bear fruit.

Nonetheless, it’s an interesting idea that should be considered by, as Loudon put it, the “next conservative president.” Whether that’s Donald Trump or someone else, we won’t know for a while. But whoever it is, they should seriously look into this.

Here’s the full episode:

Update: Some have indicated the GabTV player above doesn’t work on all browsers so here’s the segment on Rumble:

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High School Football Game Canceled Over Gang Violence After City Council Vetoed Police Chief https://americanconservativemovement.com/high-school-football-game-canceled-over-gang-violence-after-city-council-vetoed-police-chief/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/high-school-football-game-canceled-over-gang-violence-after-city-council-vetoed-police-chief/#respond Sat, 10 Sep 2022 03:56:35 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=180565 Meridian Mayor Jimmie Smith hired a qualified and strong police chief last year in Chris Read. A few months later, the woke City Council of the Mississippi town vetoed the hiring, going with Chief Deborah Young to try to control the gang-infested city of around 40,000 people.

It isn’t working out as planned.

According to WTOK, a gang fight at the high school prompted the cancelation of Friday’s football game:

Meridian High School revealed that there was an incident at Meridian High on Friday, September 9th. Out of an abundance of caution and for the safety of the students and fans, the decision was made to cancel the football game between the Wildcats and West Lauderdale according to Meridian High School.

It was announced earlier on Friday that originally no fans were permitted at the game before updating that the game itself had been canceled.

Decisions about who to lead a law enforcement department should be based on qualities, qualifications, and dedication to the job. By those standards, Chris Read was ideal. But the woke City Council had other criteria in mind such as diversity and equity so they chose someone less qualified and competent to meet their progressive standards.

Now, the city of Meridian must suffer for the City Council’s wokeness.

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